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is the super bowl is a win for the city of new orleans. 150,000 people will descend on the city hoping to pump money into new orleans economy. they are welcome dollars in the city where the tourism industry is 40% of the tax revenues. the city spent five years and $1.2 billion making improvements to roads, airports, hotels and restaurants in preparation for the super bowl. once the super bowl is over, new orleans gets back to business as usual. all the changes to the city don't necessarily equate to changes in the lives of the resident who is remain behind. i have to tell you, for those of us living in super bowl crazy town, just the traffic snarls, trying to get my kids to school, much more importantly, look at millions of dollars in profits coming to the hotels, but they don't raise the income for the front line workers. that money ends up back here in manhattan. >> event economics are like trojan horses. they are brought to a city and sold with the idea of the party aspect. like your city is going to host a party, you should have pride in that, it means something to the country. >>
is the super bowl is a win for the city of new orleans. 150,000 people will descend on the city hoping to pump money into new orleans economy. they are welcome dollars in the city where the tourism industry is 40% of the tax revenues. the city spent five years and $1.2 billion making improvements to roads, airports, hotels and restaurants in preparation for the super bowl. once the super bowl is over, new orleans gets back to business as usual. all the changes to the city don't necessarily...
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as you know, catholicism goes beyond those who hold the reins in vatican city, and the global body of 2.2 billion believers. as one of the most influential irns tugss, the catholic church encompasses those around the world who don't identify with the catholic faith, but benefit from the work of the church and the organizations it has created. the church has been an advocate for the human rights and the dignity of the most marginalized people, and providing care for the sick, and the homes for the homeless, and food for the hungry. you are the largest provider of health care and education. and for students of color catholic schools are the only affordable alternative for quality education. but cardinals, even as the church has been a channel for good, it has been a conduit for injustice around the world. the doctrine intransigence of the pope being infallible has come at the expense of policies that recognize and address realities in the modern world. women in underdeveloped nations and war torn countries need to have access to contraception, and prevent deaths in childbirth, and yet w
as you know, catholicism goes beyond those who hold the reins in vatican city, and the global body of 2.2 billion believers. as one of the most influential irns tugss, the catholic church encompasses those around the world who don't identify with the catholic faith, but benefit from the work of the church and the organizations it has created. the church has been an advocate for the human rights and the dignity of the most marginalized people, and providing care for the sick, and the homes for...
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can give you a chart of the arson in the city. i can give you a chart of the blight in the city. but i can't tell you what it is like to be a person living next door to a home that then has burned down and -- so -- >> or an empty block. >> yeah. tell me, talk to me about what that kind of real life experience feels like on the ground. >> i still have many relatives that live in the city of detroit and i look at how -- i know i work at espn but i'm not like that. i look at what's happened to their neighborhoods. it used to be a source of pride where you could shop in your own neighborhoods and feel comfortable and safe, and that has all been eliminated because the population has shrunk, people have moved out, and because of the economic forces, you wrote about a couple of these cases in the book and unfortunately, everybody who is from detroit knows someone who does this, but if you get underwater in your house, the first solution is burn it down, get the insurance money. so you have a lot of people, it's a huge problem. you have p
can give you a chart of the arson in the city. i can give you a chart of the blight in the city. but i can't tell you what it is like to be a person living next door to a home that then has burned down and -- so -- >> or an empty block. >> yeah. tell me, talk to me about what that kind of real life experience feels like on the ground. >> i still have many relatives that live in the city of detroit and i look at how -- i know i work at espn but i'm not like that. i look at...
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, one of the best in the city of chicago named after whitney young and the first lady went to and graduated from whitney young high school, and what do you believe he would say about violence in schools? >> that the job is not done enough to have people have a stake in their communities enou enough, and also to try to build bridges between never the community, and between the people who are disempowered with the jobs they need to become stakeholders, but he would also say to the people who are in the chambers of commerce that you have a vested interest in protect ing t protecting the city, too. so i think that this is the kind of bridge building that he did. it was not about black or white, but that we all have a stake in this together. so he would be trying to find the points of consensus where things could get done and better housing jobs and so forth could empower young people to not become violent. >> given how inclusive he was, he was a scout. there is a boy scout award named for whitney young. what do you think that he would say about the inclusion of gay men and boys openly in the bo
, one of the best in the city of chicago named after whitney young and the first lady went to and graduated from whitney young high school, and what do you believe he would say about violence in schools? >> that the job is not done enough to have people have a stake in their communities enou enough, and also to try to build bridges between never the community, and between the people who are disempowered with the jobs they need to become stakeholders, but he would also say to the people...